Otra Liga es posible
An Iberian proposal would slash wage costs, free up time and talent for cashflow-friendly shagshow opportunities, and assimilate football to mainstream Peninsular cultural practice.
Photos and video of snowstorm in Park Güell
Includes video of snow felling a pine tree and a photo of a municipal bus which almost skated its way down-town.
2 comments, including jeronimo: Gello people @ FTB.com thanks for the great walks always interesting and fun. nice pics of the stormKalebeul, voice of the voiceless
Restores the power of speech to stricken Andalusians.
Administrative note
I’m going to shift all the crap on this server to a new host tomorrow evening–cheaper, I believe more reliable, and it’s in the States so I can say whatever I want. One query: I have vague memories from when I left the disastrous WebFusion/Host Europe setup a couple of years ago that WordPress times-out [...]
How not to win la Guerra de los Toros, or The Cattle Raid of Cooley revisited
Some historical advice from an Irish perspective for Esperanza Aguirre on the pitfalls of attempting to demonstrate by symbolic means the virile and libertarian spirit of Madrid in the invented and regrettable conflict between it and doldrummed Barcelona.
2 comments, including Trevor: My spiritual leader reminds me that any cultural policy is anti-freedom. Yes, but. Meanwhile, maybeTour guide learns routes from Google Streetview
Here’s a cheeky hybrid of actual and virtual tourism: the guide hasn’t been to all of the places advertised here at 100€ per person per day, and he hasn’t visited some for a decade, so instead of conducting costly research he learns them from Google Streetview. Which, for all I know, may work perfectly well [...]
3 comments, including A Nun: Nah, there'll always be work for traveling gigolos.
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Cover of "The World" magazine of Jan. 18, 1914 featuring Francis Grierson as "Psychic Pianist". Public Domain over at Wikimedia Commons
Accompanying the big A
In which I proffer my experience in the service of the East European mafia as a model for helping us help the Aricept generation.
Why less democracy is better for Europe
Peter Mandelson on how fortunate we are that the European Commission is unelected, remote, unaccountable, and a major bureaucracy.
The Two Gardeners
An anti-intellectual French horticultural fable.
Kalebeul’s 5% bookstore
Yet another scheme to get poor slowly.
Bloody Galicians
But what was Rosa DÃez actually trying to say before she so expertly inserted foot into mouth?
1 comment, including santcugat: Alberto Núñez Feijóo says he may or may not have been offended. Typical.
Commental asylum
- Polish Friend@Mysterious Zaragoza nights: Have you seen this about A Little Street in Barcelona which isnt in Barcelona Spain but Buenos Aires
- Trevor@Photos and video of snowstorm in Park Güell: Well thank you Mr J!
- jeronimo@Photos and video of snowstorm in Park Güell: Gello people @ FTB.com thanks for the great walks always interesting and fun. nice pics of the storm
- “el Pri…@How not to win la Guerra de los Toros, or The Ca…: Economic motor you say? Don't make laugh: Ha, ha! They have a huge trade deficit, because basically
- Trevor@How not to win la Guerra de los Toros, or The Ca…: My spiritual leader reminds me that any cultural policy is anti-freedom. Yes, but. Meanwhile, maybe
- Trevor@In praise of virtual travel writing: So what do you expect if you go to place full of flags and where everyone has a turnip head and dres
- Visitor@In praise of virtual travel writing: Terra d'Escudella on c/ Premiá in Sans doesn't serve people who speak Spanish.
- A Nun@Tour guide learns routes from Google Streetview: Nah, there'll always be work for traveling gigolos.
- Trevor@Tour guide learns routes from Google Streetview: My view of the future: 1) People are already using handhelds and electronic guides to do basic "hey,
Das Scroll und Scream Kitschin' Kabinett des Dr Kalebeul
Unbreakable reads
- Rodez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Siguen aumentando las construcciones en cauces y en zonas de alto riesgo de inundación
- Spaanse vreemdetalenkennis is zeer matig: 63% spreekt geen Engels.
- Womens rights and alphabetical order in Spanish elections
- A Satirical Site Skewers Chávez and Politics
- Destination Subconscious: Cary Grant and LSD
- Graphical perception – learn the fundamentals first
- $1 Million Question: Will Math Expert Accept Prize?
- Barcelona, March 21
- A Morning Walk in the Metropolis
- Second Ether and the Multiverse?
- En Europa cuecen habas (también)
- Accompanying the big A
- I have to own up to occasionally wondering whether the Spanish
- In GIS as in economics, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing (Zimbabwe edition)
- EXACTO:
*Los anglosajones suelen ver la botella medio llena - Presunto periodismo
- Wade does it better
- La LÃnea: Los procesados en 'Roseworld' tienen un dÃa para depositar fianzas millonarias
- PIIGS Debt Coming Due
Visitors book
- Brer Rabid: "pseudo-historic revisionism, ... pack of lies and bullshit, ... Catalanophobe resentment of Spanish nationalism (past and present) apologist"
- Don Colin: "gnomic"
- The Pox: "Franco's Little Helper"
- La Vanguardia wonders whether Kalebeul is a CIA operation
- Mark Liberman: "a treat"
- Significant other: "What was that hairy muso on about? What blog?"
More stuff
- FollowTheBaldie.com: Vertaling in ‘t Nederlands.
- My Barrel Organ: Wardrobe challenges: how to stick a wolf up a chicken's arse.
- Fucked Translation: Domestic servant offers titillation, experience
- Facebook: Barf hear I kum.
- If you can't stand this site and hope I dies in utter poverty but you still want to do good, consider making a donation to Unión Progreso y Democracia.
- Photos:

Incoming
- Back when referrer spam from eg crossroadstransportation.net is fixed
Shorts
Stay in a hotel whose previous owners were beaten to death and buried in the garden
This is surely where this took place, and this must have been one of the last guests pre-mortem. I liked the unconsciously gruesome comments on TripAdvisor about the chilly welcome and subsidence on the tennis court, and a couple of the photos are thoroughly spooky.
Win a 13 Litre Jug of Margarita Cocktail at Pippermint Bar!
From this month’s Barcelona Connect:
Win a 13 Litre Jug of Margarita Cocktail at Pippermint Bar!
Probably the biggest jug of cocktail in the city, and certainly not one to be tackled without a good group of friends! Pippermint offers a delicious variety of cocktails, plus student night on Thursdays, and you can catch the big sports matches here on large screen TV. C/ Borà y Fontestá 20.
www.pippermintbcn.com
Before the anti-binge drinking law it was 20 litres, of course.
2 comments, including Tom: First the guided walks, now this. Kalebeul seems to serve for little more than a gallery of your vicMy 5% bookstore - new stuff
Spanish history
- EL DISCURSO BOLCHEVIQUE: EL PARTI COMMUNISTE FRANÇAIS Y LA SEGUND A REPUBLICA ESPAÑOLA (1931-1936)
CEAMANOS LLORENS, ROBERTO
20.00€ - LA HUELLA MORISCA: EL AL ANDALUS QUE LLEVAMOS DENTRO
RODRIGUEZ RAMOS, ANTONIO MANUEL
19.00€ - CASTILLA Y EL MUNDO FEUDAL (3 TOMOS): HOMENAJE AL PROFESOR JULIO VALDEON
VAL VALDIVIESO, Mª ISABEL DELMARTINEZ SOPENA, PASCUAL
90.00€
Modern Spanish fiction
- EL OFICINISTA (PREMIO BIBLIOTECA BREVE 2010)
SACCOMANO, GUILLERMO
18.00€ - LA ENMILAGRADA
GOMEZ-ARCOS, AGUSTIN
18.95€ - DIAS DE HIELO Y FUEGO
ORDOÑEZ, ROCIO
18.00€
Spanish classics
- TRAGEDIA DE NUMANCIA
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
33.00€ - LIFE IS A DREAM / LA VIDA ES SUEÑO (ED. BILINGÜE INGLES-ESPAÑOL)
CALDERON DE LA BARCA, PEDRO
16.64€ - INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA (FACSIMIL) ESTUCHE 2 VOL.
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
39.90€
On this day
Barcelona
- March 21 1848
En Barcelona como en otras partes comienza hoy la primavera, que en honor de la verdad no suele ser aqui la estacion mas hermosa del año. Cierto que ya los árboles comienzan á echar hoja, y que la linda y olorosa violeta alfombra los jardines y ribazos, y que le hacen cortejo otras flores; per...
Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)
- 21 de març de 1918 En aquest paÃs tenim un costum molt curiós. Quan ens trobem, al carrer, dues persones, cara a cara, no tenim, a penes, res a dir-nos. Però, una vegada acomiadats i fets set o vuit passos, se’ns ocorren tot d’una una sèrie de coses urgents a dir a la persona que hem deixat fa un moment. [...]
- 21 de març de 1919 Inici de la primavera. Biblioteca. Tot traduint Renard penso que és més important dominar un ofici qualsevol que posseir una curiositat dilatada, vastÃssima. La curiositat es pot improvisar; un ofici, no. La curiositat és superficialment agradable, però deixa una certa buidor amarga per dintre. Un ofici és monòton i pesat, però té moments d’una voluptuositat [...]
The peepul's choice
- Bloody Galicians
- Binding referendum on the future of Catalonia, hosted by Kalebeul
- How not to win la Guerra de los Toros, or The Cattle Raid of Cooley revisited
- Tour guide learns routes from Google Streetview
- Photos and video of snowstorm in Park Güell
- Kalebeul’s 5% bookstore
- The Two Gardeners
- Why less democracy is better for Europe
- Administrative note
- Kalebeul, voice of the voiceless
- Follow la quiniela live with PHP data import to Excel
- Man combing Vietnamese pot-bellied pig in Cuenca courtyard
- The naming of El Picazo
- What’s your ex-pat blogging style?
- The coming and going of the gypsies
- The green of the louse/Lo verde del piojo
- Fiesta mayor programmes and Zapatero
- Barcelona and the great European fire sale
- Lipoplasty loaf
- Interactive electronics/dance performance
- Windows Vista: Error en el servicio Servicio de perfil de usuario al iniciar sesion. No se puede cargar el perfil de usuario
- New Abramovich yacht pictures
- Some more sun goddesses
- Traductor castellano-andaluz
- Dogs’ bollocks
- Follow la quiniela live with PHP data import to Excel
- How regional language policy in Spain is pissing off foreign investors
- Sagrada Familia mural
- Jaws is not a feminist shero
- Forum auction not to include mayor Clos
